Posted on 03/12/2023 12:12:52 PM PDT by RandFan
The self-proclaimed “greenest member” of Congress is a Republican from rural Kentucky. He lives in an off-the-grid home he built himself, using timbers cut and rock quarried from his family cattle farm. He pipes in water from a nearby pond, and powers the home with solar panels and a battery from a wrecked Tesla that he salvaged and retrofitted.
But while he lives on, and even makes part of his living from, the land, very few people would call him an environmentalist. The car he drives back and forth from Washington has a license plate advertising his support for coal. He likes to lean on his experience as a robotics engineer to argue against precipitously switching over to renewable energy, claiming that rapid changes could crash America’s power grids. And he once mocked John Kerry, who has a degree in political science, in a congressional hearing on climate threats: “I think it’s somewhat appropriate that someone with a pseudoscience degree,” he said, “is here pushing pseudoscience.”
Mr. Kerry stumbled, visibly surprised and angry. “Are you serious? I mean, this is really seriously happening here?”
It was hard to say. From the outside, Thomas Massie can look like yet another congressional gadfly courting controversy by, for instance, introducing a one-sentence bill that would abolish the Department of Education, or posing for a Christmas photo with his wife and children, each of them holding a weapon, from an M60 to an Uzi, or speaking at the 60th anniversary celebration of the far-right John Birch Society.
But Mr. Massie is not just another loony G.O.P. backbencher. Outside the public eye, he has been quietly advancing what for a Republican politician is an unusual set of stances: evincing deep opposition to the national security state, resistance to the influence wielded by corporations....
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And he once mocked John Kerry, who has a degree in political science, in a congressional hearing on climate threats: “I think it’s somewhat appropriate that someone with a pseudoscience degree,” he said, “is here pushing pseudoscience.”
LOL- the NY Slimes didn’t mean to but further proved what a hoax climate change it. Lurch has a degree in poli sci- so that makes him an expert on climate threats?
He was the county executive before becoming the congressman. That’s how he got started. Inspired to run for office by Ron Paul and then Rand
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Yes. He is someone worth following (career wise) and hope you will.
I have followed him since before he got to Congress. He actually follows me on twitter on his unofficial account and I have exchanged messages. How cool is that?
Those on the banglist will know him well too .He is a massive 2A advocate.
Just to add to my last post he did say he wasn’t sure about “going further in government” which I took as a reference to the Senate.
He might be happy just being in the House.
Although, no one really knows. He could change his mind and there is no vacancy anyway at present.
Exactly! Like some other good Repubs he thinks outside the box as a critical thinker and not necessarily as a group. He gets stuff done while many talk and politic. I’ve always been a Ron Paul fan as a conservative anti war libertarian. We should protect the USA not those who too often weasel to scam the USA and involve us in wars for their defense not ours.
I remember when he was Judge Executive in Lewis County. The 4th district of Ky. is Jim Bunning’s old congressional district.
Massive is one of the few congress-people who is not a corporate or deep-state drone
If Trump were truly “MAGA”, he’d pick someone like Massie as his running mate.
That would be quite a turnaround.
Trump tried to get rid of Massie and said he shouldn’t be in the Republican party.
And Trump just also put WEF/Agenda 2030-style smart cities on his platform for 2024.
But if he really were what so many Creepers think, he would have a Massie-esque running mate, cabinet, and the like.
I’d love to see Massie challenge Cocaine Mitch.
Massie is one of the few truly Conservative and bold congressmen.
Between the House and the Senate there are about four.
Massie is my favorite.
It’ll never happen. Mitch is an institution in KY (sadly).
Though surely he’s now in his 80’s he will retire soon or die in office
Massie just ratted out Deep State...
Thomas Massie
@RepThomasMassie
Just got off of a zoom meeting with Fed, Treasury, FDIC, House, and Senate.
A Democrat Senator essentially asked whether there was a program in place to censor information on social media that could lead to a run on the banks.
8:24 PM · Mar 12, 2023
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The response to that question per Massie...
Thomas Massie
@RepThomasMassie
Replying to
@Gplavallee72
“We will get back to you on that.”
8:29 PM · Mar 12, 2023
And this ain’t good...
Thomas Massie Retweeted
Mike Benz
@MikeBenzCyber
Rep. Massie: DHS efforts are already underway to add censorship of “financial misinformation” to CISA’s portfolio of “critical infrastructure” domains it can classify tweets as a cyber attack on, & thus censor. See, e.g., link below:
https://cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/June%202022%20CSAC%20Recommendations%20%E2%80%93%20MDM_0.pdf
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Just got off of a zoom meeting with Fed, Treasury, FDIC, House, and Senate.
A Democrat Senator essentially asked whether there was a program in place to censor information on social media that could lead to a run on the banks.
11:34 PM · Mar 12, 2023
Yes that is concerning
To put it mildly.
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